Device Information

There are many configurations for these models of HP Probooks. Mine is like the following "lspci". Mostly, the stuff in lspci is pretty meaningless, because your OS (most likely Arch) will pick up all the device modules automatically, so you should't worry or pay too close attention to them.
The most and only items in the lspci are your graphics card and your wireless networking card.

other devices needing an attention

Synaptics Clikpad (looks like a touchpad, but it has both of the buttons integrated in the overall touching zone of the touchpad).

Battery life!!! Huuuuge difference of battery life when win7 and Arch compared. I suspect it to be tricky configuration of lm-sensors, cpufreq, and acpi alltogether.

Configuration

Networking

WLAN

This notebook comes, in my opinion, equiped the worst choice of wireless hardware. Definetely, for linux users. The Ralink combo card RT3090 is quite new, and Ralink promises extremely welcome support for the Linux community. However, the drivers supplied by them are nothing more but a pain and bunch of unstable, unusable lines of coding. So for now, let's try using what's already there for us within the linux kernel.

There generally are two drivers. One of with is old and staging, and another much newer, but probably not quite ready. The best choice is to load the older rt2860sta driver and blacklist the rest.

if especially the rt2800pci is not blacklisted, it messes up your wireless stability.

Bluetooth

As the half-mini wireless card RT3090 is a combo one, the bluetooth radio is embeded together with wifi. The bluetooth device isn't listed in lspci. However, is is visible with hciconfig -a command.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d # hciconfig -a

Looks good as it should, but there is no radio activity! Nothing shows up on scannig neither direction. I assume, the driver is either dead, or I am missing something.

Note: Please, fill me in if you know how to get the bluetooth working

Graphics

Video card ATI

Not much to say.. Just install the required package with pacman and you are all set. Your system will pick up the driver at the next lounch of X. The package is xf86-video-ati. Works without an issue. I have not tried the proprietary catalyst driver yet, I very well may not try it, because this one works good enaough for me.

Input Devices

Clikpad (touchpad)

The touchpad -clickpad is a pain. Unless you are already using the 2.6.38 kernel (as you shoud) and xf86-input-synaptics 1.4.0-2 package (wich came out pretty much the same day), your clikpad will be jittering and acting annoyingly with the default settings. I managed to get it working somewhat well by tweaking it with the /etc/X11/xorg.d/10-synaptics.conf file see below.

Now - with the synaptics package older than "xf86-input-synaptics 1.4.0-2", there are many things to tweak to get your clikpad working somewhat good. You will still miss the right-clik (the real click) button though, but I worked around this problem by making a soft-clik out of a two-finger touch that emulates the right-button click with inserting "Option "RTCornerButton" "2" in the config file.

Note, that normaly you shoudn't have any other files in the ..xorg.d/ directory that state configurations for input devices, unless you need specific configs for other input devices. When I connect external mouse, it works without any specific configuration.

What is achieved with these setings are explained in the comments in the file.

ClickPad with newest synaptics package

Note: Users, please, help updating this information, as it is far from complete

Now, with the newer package form Synaptics (1.4.0-2) I was really expecting much more improvement. However, it comes with some degree of dissapointment. First I tried to roll on without any aditional configuration of the device. I left it with the default settings that came with the new version of synaptics package.

First, the clickpad seems to work smoother than before - thank you!

However, the right-button is still missing. Vertical-two-finger sroll is working out-of-the-box - thank you!

The default sensitivity of the clickpad is set too much - bad!

None of the true wonders of clickpad are available (correct me if I am wrong)

wonders like two-finger-zoom (stealed from apple),

two-finger rotation,

finger-movement inertia (really nice option- I very much like it),

scrolling inertia (also very useful),

Clickpad off button in the upper-left corner.

I have the opportunity to test all the wonders of the clickpad, because I double-boot my Probook with Windows7. Where all the features of the clickpad are available.

Working w/o aditional settings in ../xorg.d/: with the newer Synaptics package

This is the default config file, let's use it and see how it goes.. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf